I just returned after sixteen days on Maui chasing wind and looking at real estate.  The wind by the way was awesome, as always, and I even got my back-loops wired on my foilboard.  For those of you who have not read my profile I’m big into wind and ocean sports, mainly kitesurfing and foilboarding.  Maui is a mecca for wind and ocean sports and if I could, I’d call it home.  Our plan when we sold our Belmont Shore home in October of ‘06 was to reinvest some of our …

“There’s a sucker born every minute”, was a phrase supposedly coined by P.T. Barnum, the American circus mogul.  In reality it was originally uttered by Barnum’s competitor, David Hannum, a New York banker turned showman.  Hannum made the prophetic statement after Barnum had successfully convinced the media that a ‘giant human fossil’ Hannum had previously unveiled to the public was a fake and that Barnum’s newly found ‘giant human fossil’ was the real deal.  Barnum’s newest sensation captured the media’s attention and the public soon flocked by the thousands to pay for and see …